Over the last 18 months GiGL have been mapping all ancient woodland in Greater London. This work will update Natural England’s Ancient Woodland Inventory (AWI), allowing us to address errors and omissions in the current dataset, and will help us to ensure that all...
Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager It is not very often that we get asked to help digitise the archives of a natural history society so we were excited when the Orpington Field Club approached us to see if we could help. After saying yes, we received a visit to our...
Suzie Jackman, interim Chair of GiGL’s Board of Directors The first London Recorders’ Day was held on 10th November 2018 at the Natural History Museum. The event was facilitated by GiGL in partnership with the Field Studies Council and the Angela Marmont Centre for UK...
Andrea Albergoni ‘If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants’. Isaac Newton As a student who has now completed his first major academic project, I could not agree more with the essence of this quotation. In the summer of 2012, I...
Chloë Smith, GiGL Partnership Manager Those involved in environmental and planning policy have been busy lately. The Environment Bill is making its way through parliament and some of the cornerstone pieces of legislation that are set to emerge will have big...
